TrueCrypt 5.1 released

Today I was browsing the web and found, that TrueCrypt 5.1 was released on March, 10th. Furthermore I realized that I missed the 5.0a release, that came with several bug fixes. TrueCrypt 5.1 ships with some features that I missed in the last release (and that are not part of 5.0a):

• Support for hibernation on computers where the system partition is encrypted. (Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003)
• Increased speed of AES encryption/decryption (depending on the hardware platform, by 30-90%). (Windows)
• BootLoader shrinked from 42KiB to 27KiB.
• A backup of the Boot Loader (which is now small enough) is stored in the first drive cylinder. Therefore the BIOS automatically tries to boot with the backup Boot Loader when the primary Boot Loader fails.

And again TrueCrypt got even better with the new release. I will update my notebook this evening. If there will occure some unexpected problems, I'll write about them. After that, the next step is to finish the performance tests on my home machine. After that i will update this machine to 5.1, too, and will again do some performance tests. Hopefully I will be ready with this stuff this weekend. Until then, stay tuned.